Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-08-14
4 rronibirionisrs Views.


,.o9 yo., ia Texas The paragraph reads
+ 80, follows.
The more conservative temperance PEG
nIr NAV take warming from TINS disastrous
4 overthrow and cut loose from the eNt'eiA-
. Isl. ,bua!yu,atr impractirUblc LEGAL me.tS-
rrr. IN rur, "A moral evil A. wei thy To
rpu,DrI men to become religious - colnPei
/ ,b..,, y, he, TEMPERATE. Whether or not
MON shall drink iutUNlCauts = purely
personal question, aud as such Is Outs'ue
/ fba realm OF law. II is for each lndlViuuaI
man To decide and to decide Tor no one
but himself
There is manifest mlsapprenens'On
herr. a. the aims aud objects OF the prohl-
bltioaists. No people understand better
than they that II Is impossible to compel
men lv Law to lee either moral, religious or
temperate 10 Is got their purpose TO 10
any OF these things. No people under
stand better than they that 1t Is the per
sonal rIght" of every individual to eat and
drink whatever h, or she pIeaseS. but the
personal rights of each Indiyldai in a COM
munity must he exercised with proper re-
rlri tor the personal rights Of alI Others.
Every man has a personal right to burn
I'M, house. EJECT a tanuery or butcher
shop and carry on the business on MS
uremispS buy and sell deadly pulSonS, M
fnNirauts or any other commodity they may
choose To deal in, but these rights are nearly
.dl of them taken away from all the cltI-
xrns of Wheeling with a few exceptions,
and the few exercise the rights under
money restrictions. These restrictions and
prohibitions are not put upon them 70
make those who exercise them moral az
religious OF temperate. The Eaw ioIhluS
me To- burn my house. not tor the purpose
of improving my morals, but to protect
my ncighhorS from being injured by such
am exercise of my personal right. The
same is true OF other ot}eusrs against GOOD
morals and good order Drunkenness Is
no more au oGense against morals and re
igiou than larceny or murder. Larceny
and murder are prohibited by law; not ON
account of their immortality hut to pro
teyt other people against thieves ami mNT-
drrrrS Drunkenness not only makes
thieves and murderers, but It n, the most
fruitful of all sources OF all kinds OF crime.
Ut l.i classes of men druukIds are The
most dangerous. The law ought also 10
protect against drunkaris. ljJ- an ot"nse
against good morals to induce Wru to steal
or murder, aud IT Is prohibited 10y law, not
90 amend the morals OF the offenders, but
for tine protectlonut the community. it's
equally an uuruSc against morals
10 induce men To- become drunk
ard. The right OF the community
90 protect themselves against drunEard~
and druukard makers, Is as perfectly good
as ;hejr right TO protect themselves against
| thieves aud thief makers. r. moral suI'
sion the minority q: mcu have been Led 20
refrain from numbering aud stealing, But
in spite urmOral sUlSiou some ueu Will
still steal and murder. Prohlh'tury laws
/ have been enacted against these OltnnSeS.
| Though these laws do not prohibit
| they are not called "imprICtlcIble,
neither does anybody propose 10 repeal
/ them because they go not prohibit. We
propose still 10 keep the prison Tor the
| thief and the gal.OwS tor the murderer.
| We put the thief in prison, not 70 Improve
| his morals. but tr pregDut h.m from IN
mriug others by exercising his prrsonM
right To steal II WAS rot FOR the purpose
Of making moral or religious man Of aim
that Chateau Wa hung, bat 20 prevent
him. aud men ike him, from shooting
Presidents No matter now mora, or Zee
Tgtuus he might Gay" become after firing
'he shot. IL would have awaited nothing IN
/ the way ufstyiu- a> neck from the halter.
| These AindS Of suasiuV reach the classes %.
men WAC ALE uDJ "a. %. reach q, mora.
sua~luV.
Mora sga-iou l.- been .he principal